Vuong Huu Tan, director of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, a government office, said Vietnamese and U.S. officials reached an initial agreement on nuclear cooperation in March and hope to finalize the pact later this year. He said Vietnam didn’t plan to enrich uranium, “as it is sensitive to Vietnam to do so.” — Jay …
Black Helicopters
by | 2010-08-04 | 16 Comments
What is it about the New START treaty’s Bilateral Consultative Commission that seems to stir up such paranoia on the right-wing? Jack Goldsmith and Jeremy Rabkin, two conservative legal scholars, have what at first glance to be the most boring op-ed in the history of the Washington Post — a proposal that the Senate ratify …
Deterrence, North Korea-style
by | 2010-08-04 | 2 Comments
As regular readers are well aware, North Korea’s KCNA often features heartwarming turns of phrase like this one: The DPRK will bolster up its war deterrent under the uplifted banner of Songun as long as the U.S. military threat and provocations against it persist. “Bolstering” is ideally carried out through nuclear or missile tests, but …
The Stakes for New START
by | 2010-08-03 | 9 Comments
Conventional wisdom has it that New START matters only at the margins, fitting comfortably within projected U.S. and Russian strategic plans, foreclosing nothing of substance and costing the usual ransom to assuage skeptics. I’m not buying this line of argument.
